AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2581MHz vs 1777MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 230W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6700 XT +3%

13.21 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6700 XT +42%

12772

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

8978

Radeon RX 6700 XT

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GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Mar 2021

Release Date

Sep 2021

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2321 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2581 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

28

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

3584

160

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

40

RT Cores

28

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

413.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

26.43 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

825.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 22

GPU Name

GA104

Navi 22 XT (215-127000006)

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

17.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

335 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

230W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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